US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Beijing) on Nov. 3 for "Method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,827, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services" was invented by Mingzeng Dai (Shanghai), Lianhai Wu (Beijing) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for multicast and broadcast services. A method for a handover of a user equipment (UE) from a first NodeB to a second NodeB and performed by the first NodeB. The method comprise: transmitting at least one first data packet to the UE; receiving, from a core network, an alignment indication."

The patent was filed on Aug. 7, 2020, ...